The Element Air-Vipasana Group

Edel Bolger O'Hora

​Alchemy is the precursor to science. It is the medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy whose aims were the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for diseases , and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life. Alchemists made all sorts of materials for commerce, including medicines, pigments, metallic alloys , perfumes and cosmetics.
 
Spiritual alchemy is the art of transformation, inner liberation and change. We are taught about achieving a state of enlightenment in our yoga practice. Existing in a state of enlightenment, or soulful awareness, is the ultimate state of transformation-the gold-of spiritual alchemy.

In this article I will talk about the element Air in relation to the group Vipasana. This group is about breath, and observing our breath in the ‘Now’ moment. It is about being present to ourselves and joining with others in a community way.
 
‘Air’ is associated with breath. The Anahata or the Green Chakra. Air is associated with space and time because without those things there is no movement. Space and time is about our spirit and many of us live in the past or planning the future but the present, the ‘Now’ is the real time and space. Getting to know ourselves in time and space is our presence! Breath work helps us return to the spirit self, the soul in the present time. There we can build a relationship with ourselves and experience the cosmic being that we are.
When the link between heart energy and pelvic energy is broken we become disconnected from our source power, the deep feminine of our Earth. Lacking this connection we become depleted, and feel the need to look to others for guidance and instruction. When this connection is restored, and love flows freely down into the source, then the vital energy is nourished and we are reconnected to our intuitive wisdom, the deep feminine within each of us.
So, when you think of Air, think green, think  Anahata. Ambrik Waters, Homeopath, talks about the Homeopathic Green Remedy. It is healing for those who feel exhausted, indifferent to life and/or disappointed with love. Other more physical signs of needing this remedy may be halitosis, hair falling, ravenous hunger.
Healing stones are pink quartz, clear quartz, jade, green calcite and  healing essential oils are rose, geranium, neroli, jasmine, bergamot.
 
We have the ability to heal ourselves and transform our own thinking. This article is written to awaken that in you because you are reading this article at all. We end the class with a yoga nidra which is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, typically induced by a guided meditation. This practice helps us to engage with ourselves, our spirit and become friends with that experience rather than fear the power of how great we are.
 
I will end with the coming together of green in our language. We are all familiar with sayings like ‘I have green fingers’, and the opposite ‘ the Green eyed Monster. And for us Irish  the Emerald Isle of Eireann attracts us back to her.

References
https://www.britannica.com/topic/alchemy
https://www.google.ie/books/edition/The_Four_Elements/i8X0PeFQ4lIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1147927
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